On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: .. > I might add why I was asking this question. I was trying to demonstrate the > use > of class decorators and the simplest example I found was to add a docstring to > the class.
I always thought that read-only __doc__ was an artifact of new classes evolving from (C-implemented) types. IIRC, NumPy project implemented a somewhat elaborate hack to allow docstrings to be added to C-implemented classes in a .py file. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com